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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) has a policy (Policy 912) that requires that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and intersex (LGBTQI) juveniles be treated with respect for their identities. A minister who volunteered to work with young people at the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center is now challenging that policy after his services were revoked because he refused to comply with it.
Minister David Wells of the Pleasant View Baptist Church in McQuady, KY is represented by the anti-LGBT Liberty Counsel, which sent a letter to the DJJ on his behalf threatening legal action if the policy is not lifted and Wells reinstated. Wells refused to sign a statement promising to refrain from ever telling juvenile inmates that homosexuality was “sinful.” Specifically, the policy requires that volunteers not use “derogatory language in a manner that conveys bias towards or hatred of the LGBTQI community” and that they “shall not imply or tell LGBTQI juveniles that they are abnormal, deviant, sinful, or that they can or should change their sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Superintendent Gene Wade outlined how Wells could comply with the policy, explaining, “You can give a scripture reference to the kids, and let them look it up, but you can’t read it in their hearing. You can’t say ‘sinful'; you can’t discuss sexual orientation — heterosexual or homosexual — period.” These terms were not satisfactory for Wells to continue his volunteer work at the detention center

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/07/27/3684645/juvenile-minister-homosexuality-sinful/

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

The scriptures are no help. I mean just what the hell are 'the scriptures ? Even the so-called orthodox when it suits them, choose not to believe half of them.

Hell, they condoned or at least often made reference to or advised for the continuing genocide, incest, polygamy and slavery. Maybe they were just all about getting the 'other' guy while enjoying and propagating your own.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

The Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) has a policy (Policy 912) that requires that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and intersex (LGBTQI) juveniles be treated with respect for their identities. A minister who volunteered to work with young people at the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center is now challenging that policy after his services were revoked because he refused to comply with it.
Minister David Wells of the Pleasant View Baptist Church in McQuady, KY is represented by the anti-LGBT Liberty Counsel, which sent a letter to the DJJ on his behalf threatening legal action if the policy is not lifted and Wells reinstated. Wells refused to sign a statement promising to refrain from ever telling juvenile inmates that homosexuality was “sinful.” Specifically, the policy requires that volunteers not use “derogatory language in a manner that conveys bias towards or hatred of the LGBTQI community” and that they “shall not imply or tell LGBTQI juveniles that they are abnormal, deviant, sinful, or that they can or should change their sexual orientation or gender identity.”
Superintendent Gene Wade outlined how Wells could comply with the policy, explaining, “You can give a scripture reference to the kids, and let them look it up, but you can’t read it in their hearing. You can’t say ‘sinful'; you can’t discuss sexual orientation — heterosexual or homosexual — period.” These terms were not satisfactory for Wells to continue his volunteer work at the detention center

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/07/27/3684645/juvenile-minister-homosexuality-sinful/

Surprising that out of 320 million people, you found one person who is like that...

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

Surprising that out of 320 million people, you found one person who is like that...

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ORIGINAL: JVoV

I'm in awe of Kentucky's policy, quite frankly. I wouldn't have expected it there. Obviously I need to rethink the Bluegrass State a bit.

The policy makes perfect sense though. Considering these are already obviously very troubled youths, feeling unloved & unwanted, being told that God can't even love them likely wouldn't help matters at all.

Kids need hope & love, not fire & brimstone.

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"Don’t tell me what the bible says about homosexuals and you change wives like we change underwear. Sit yourself, your hypocritical self, down.”

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

The scriptures are no help. I mean just what the hell are 'the scriptures ? Even the so-called orthodox when it suits them, choose not to believe half of them.

Hell, they condoned or at least often made reference to or advised for the continuing genocide, incest, polygamy and slavery. Maybe they were just all about getting the 'other' guy while enjoying and propagating your own.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

FR

In 400 pages of Scripture, this "minister" can't find anything else to preach about?

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

In 400 pages of Scripture, this "minister" can't find anything else to preach about?

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." ~C.S. Lewis

K.